Date   : Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:08:10 +0000
From   : Phil Blundell <philb@...>
Subject: Re: 6502s and SASI/SCSI.

Hi M.,

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 14:42 +0000, Fragula wrote:
> Phil Blundell wrote:
> 
> > I've occasionally thought that it would be cute to make a little
> > protocol converter board to interface a modern IDE disk to an old-style
> > SCSI/SASI bus, for use with the Acorn winchester controller or something
> > like that.  Kind of like a contemporary equivalent of the Xebec
> > SCSI-ESDI/MFM converters that you used to see back in the day.
> Elegant indeed. Worthy of a good airing!

So, this weekend I was sufficiently enthused by this idea to sketch a
schematic for it.  Turns out to be pretty simple, just a microcontroller
and a pile of buffers really:

http://freedesktop.org/~pb/scsi-ata.pdf

p.